Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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